But negative feelings like guilt and shame do not predict how much time women spend gaming. Instead, gaming time is related to their attitudes to games and gaming identity.

We found that 28.8% of women feel guilty about taking time to play games. Feeling guilty is associated with feeling excluded from gaming culture, or not knowing which games to try.

In a survey of 1000 women who play mobile games in the UK, most identify as 'casual' gamers. Even for women who spend more than 5 hours a day playing games across multiple platforms, 75% did not feel like they played enough to consider themselves a 'gamer'.

I got my copy of the Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution! global.oup.com/academic/pro... It's amazing to see the investment that so many people have put into developing methods in our field! Kateryna Krykoniuk and I have a chapter on Causal Graphs in correlation-machine.com/CHIELD/

I made a tool to add Balatro-style mechanics to D&D. Ever wanted to roll a billion points of damage? Now you can! Feedback welcome.
correlation-machine.com/DnDPowerCards/

Today I went walking on the Black Mountains, high above a huge fog bank. I saw a fog bow and cast a Brocken spectre with a glory halo. Who knew such things existed?

Winners of our #LanguageEvolves competition published in Gwyllion magazine today! In an alternative past, a Welsh Sign Language is under threat (Y Ddwyleg by Olivia Cowhig). And in a possible future, Welsh becomes an object of desire (Arianwen by Sarah McCreadie) gwyllionmagazine.com/product-cate...

How does linguistic reference work? A new paper gives a rare glimpse into the complex dynamics of nurses referring to patients. Delighted to have worked on this with Kateryna Krykoniuk, Michelle Aldridge-Waddon and Lise Fontaine. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Stories from our #LanguageEvolves competition will be published in @gwyllion.bsky.social magazine on October 31st. Olivia Cowhig and Sarah McCreadie explore the past and future of language in Wales. It's the middle of the Venn diagram of Language Evolution, Sci-fi and Halloween! gwyllionmagazine.com